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Scientists quit government to ‘speak out’ on biodiversity crisis

SCIENTISTS who quit working for the government after feeling they had “no opportunity to make real change” have now turned to climate campaigning to demand action. 

In a protest on Friday morning, former employees and advisers for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), pasted posters on the department’s windows.

The group said the posters were aimed at highlighting the government’s “failure to deliver” on its promises to address the “dramatic” decline in species and natural habitats. 

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